Wrench.



' No. 849,272. PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

- s. P. SCHNEIDER.

WRENGH.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19. 1906.

1M in zoom attomwg S SAMUEL P. SCHNEIDER, OF LORENTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

WRENCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed April 19, 1906- Serial No. 312,683-

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL P. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lorenton, in the county of Tioga, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wrenches; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to wrenches generally, and particularly to the kind sometimes termed wagon or buggy wrenches, because of their peculiar adaptability to engage and hold the axle-nut while the opera tion of lubricating the spindle istaking place.

It is the object of the invention to provide a wrench of the kind mentioned as an article of manufacture which shall be simple in and economic of construction, quickly adjusted, and be entirely efficient in all of its uses.

To the foregoing ends my improvements consist of a wrench composed of but three partsa stationary bar bearing one jaw, a sliding bar provided with the other or cooperating jaw, and a rod for operating the sliding bar to close or adjust the jaw on the sliding bar on the nut or other thing to be operated upon.

The annexed drawings form a part of this specification and are to be referred to as such, the figures of reference marked thereon designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved wrench. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the wrench. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 4 is a transverse section.

I will first proceed to describe the invention in detail in view of the drawings and then point out the improvements with particularity in the subjoin ed claim.

In the drawings, 5 designates the stationary bar having its rear end 6 bent up at a right angle to its body part and having a screw-threaded hole 7 formed through the said bent-up part in a longitudinal direction. The side edges 8 of the said bar are bent up slightly and turned inward, so that in crosssection it will have a form somewhat resembling a groove in its upper side with undercut edges. A j aw 9 is formed on the forward end of the stationary bar, constructed to fit on a bur or nut of a buggy or wagon spindle.

1O designates a sliding bar superposed on the stationary bar 5 and having its edges engaged by the slightlyoverturned edges of the stationary bar. The sliding bar has its rear end 11 upturned and an internally-smooth hole 12 formed through said end, and, fur: thermore, the latter bar is provided on its forward end with a jaw 13, constructed to cooperate with the jaw 9.

14 designates a rod provided at its rear end with a suitable handle 15. The said rod on its forward portion is screw-threaded to adapt it to operate in the screw-threaded hole 7 of the u turned rear end 6 of the bar 5. The extreme f drward end of the rod extends through the hole 12 of the upturned rear end of the slidable bar 10, and its tip is provided with a nut 16, so that the rod cannot be withdrawn through the hole 12.

In practice the parts composing the invention will be assembled and with the jaw 9 of the stationary bar against the nut or other thing to be turned the handle of the rod 14 will be taken hold as shown in Fig. 1

of and the said rod will be manipulated or 4 turned to draw the jaw 13 of the sliding bar up against the other side of the nut and the two ars, serving as a handle to the wrench, will be turned to turn off the nut and hold it in the jaws while the spindle is being lubricated. After this without touching the nut with the fingers of the hand and soiling them the wrench can be picked up, still holding the nut, which may be turned on the spindle again by a practically reverse manipulation of the wrench.

It will be noted that changes may be made in the form and arrangement of arts within the scope of mechanical skill wit out departing form the general nature or spirit of the invention.

That is claimed as the invention is As an article of manufacture, an axle-nut wrench consisting of a stationary flat bar provided with a downwardly-turned angular jaw on its forward end, an upturned rear end having a screw-threaded hole formed therethrough and having its sides turned upwardly and inwardly, a sliding fiat bar superposed on the stationary bar having its sides engaged by the upwardly and inwardly turned sides I the rod being passed through the said aperto of the stationary bar, provided on its forward 1 ture and its tip formed into a head.

end with a downwardly-turned angular jaw 1 In testimony whereof I affix my signature to dccgpperate with the fiirstqnentiloned jag, in presence of two witnesses.

an avin an a erturec u turner rear en and a rod provided on its mter end with a SAMUEL SCHNEIDER handle and having its forward part screw- Witnesses:

threaded and tapped through the screw- LIMIE L. FRUTIGER.

threaded upturned end of the stationary bar, PARY HEssEY. 

